"I didn't become a superhero until I was seventeen, and even then, I didn't get my priorities 100% straight until life went all Starship Troopers on me." It'd taken way too long. "You're doing fine."
A pause.
"Geez, people really did a number on you with making me out to be some paragon of virtue or something, didn't they. Or else you'd know you were already ahead of the game." No way would Sam be fussing over rookie mistakes if he knew that Rich himself had been a world-class screw up through huge chunks of his superhero career. "You wanna talk collateral damage and terrible priorities? I spent most of my twenties worried more about getting famous than civilians. When I got back from the war, most people could barely recognize me, 'cause I stopped tooting my own horn so loud that everyone around me went deaf."
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Come on, Sam.
"I didn't become a superhero until I was seventeen, and even then, I didn't get my priorities 100% straight until life went all Starship Troopers on me." It'd taken way too long. "You're doing fine."
A pause.
"Geez, people really did a number on you with making me out to be some paragon of virtue or something, didn't they. Or else you'd know you were already ahead of the game." No way would Sam be fussing over rookie mistakes if he knew that Rich himself had been a world-class screw up through huge chunks of his superhero career. "You wanna talk collateral damage and terrible priorities? I spent most of my twenties worried more about getting famous than civilians. When I got back from the war, most people could barely recognize me, 'cause I stopped tooting my own horn so loud that everyone around me went deaf."